New online charity lottery launched
Howard Lake | 11 December 2001 | News
The Globelot Charity Foundation, a non-profit foundation based in Liechtenstein, has set up on online lottery benefiting four international charities.
The Globelot Charity Lottery offers a top weekly prize of ‚€20 million in the new SIXplusONE pan-European online game. It pays back 55% of the total stake for winnings and allocates 25% to international charities.
The Foundation has developed the online lottery in cooperation with The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, CARE, WWF and Human Rights Watch. All have committed to use the lottery as part of their future fundraising activities in Europe.
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Betsy Thurston of The International Federation of The Red Cross and Red Crescent explains: “We participate in the Globelot Charity Lottery because it has been developed with us and for us. And we believe that it may be one of the
most positive developments in charity fundraising for many years.”
SIXplusONE is the first of several planned lotteries aimed at raising funds for international humanitarian work. This is a 6/49 numbers game. In other words the player chooses 6 lucky numbers and a Bonus ball. If all are drawn the winner gets ‚€20 million. Six numbers without the Bonus ball qualify for a ‚€2 million win. There are also prizes for drawing fewer correct numbers.
The lottery is run weekly by The Lottery Concept Company. A privately owned Danish company founded in 2000, the Lottery Concept Company operates the lottery as the full service outsourcing partner of the Globelot Charity Foundation.
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